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No. 307,927. Patented Nov. 11, 1884.

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WILLIAM J. DYER AND THOMAS XV. MAXEY, OF NEVADA, MISSOURI.

WEATHER-BOARD GAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,927, dated November11, 1884.

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Be it known that we, WILLIAM J. DYER and THOMAS WV. MAXEY, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Nevada, in the county of Vernon and Stateof Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWVeather-Board Gages, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to that class of devices used by carpenters inspacing weatherboards while nailing them on to the side of a house; andits object is to hold the board exactly in its proper relation to thepreviouslynailed board while the board is being scribed for sawing toiit its place, and again when it has been fitted to hold it in the sameposition To this end our invention consists in the construction andcombination of parts forming a weather-board gage, hereinafter describedand claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a vertical section of a portion of the side of a house,showing our invention in side elevation in use; and Fig. 2 is a frontview of our invention.

A represents the body of our gage, which is usually made of wood, abouteight or ten inches long and slotted, as at L.

B is a spur to be driven into a stud, C, of the house tohold the devicein place.

D is a spring connecting the spur with the body and acting to press thebody firmly against the house, yet permitting the body to be raised awayfrom the house enough to allow a weather-board to be pushed upunder it.To assist this operation the lower end of the body is wedge-shaped at E.

F is the shoulder upon which the weatherboard is to be held in placewhile nailing, the.

G is a pin, which is the gage of distance between the weather-boards.This pin is supported on a spring, H, which holds the pin drawn into theslot L in the body, but which will permit the pin to project from theunder side of the body, as shown in dotted lines, when in use.

J is a set-screw in the slot L, holding the spring H and pin G to thebody A. This setscrew is movable along the slot, and may be boundtightat any point therein to hold the pin at a distance from the shoulder Fcorre- B are driven by hammer blows into the studs. I

Now another weather-board is pushed up under the two gages to rest ontheir shoulders F. Then this board is scribed to'be cut to fit thewindow or door casings, 820., and taken out from under the gages to beso out. Then the board is returned to place on the shoulders F andnailed to the house'. Now the gages must be removed by withdrawing thespurs and re-, placed relative to the last board nailed on. By thismeans one person may do the work of two working without any such aids,do it more accurately, and work as well on a windy day as in stillweather. By attaching the spring D to the outer face of the body A theupper end thereof is left free to serve as the shoulder F, described.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. The combination, with the slotted body A, of the spring D, secured tothe outer face thereof, leaving the end F free to serve as a shoulder,the spur B in the free end of spring D, the pin G in the slot L, thespring H, carrying the pin G, and the set-screw J, holding the spring Hand adjustable along the slot L, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the spring D, having the spur B at its upperend, of the body A, secured at one of its sides to the spring D, leavingthe end F of the body free to serve as a shoulder, the gage-pin J, andmeans, substantially as described, for adjustably securing it to thebody A, the said body being wedge-shaped at its lower end, as shown anddescribed.

WILLIAM J. DYER.

THOMAS XV. MAXEY.

"Witnesses: BOYD BOWLAND, L. ANDERSON.

